Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.